Improvement in tobacco-hangers



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Improvement vin Tobacco Hangers.

Patented March 26,1812.

nfzesses @Het a M@ ALBAN G. FERRISS, OF NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT lN TOBACCO-HANGERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,943, dated March26,1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBAN G. FERRISS, of New Milford, in the county ofLitchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inTobacco-Hanger; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawing and the. letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawing constitutes a part of this specification, andrepresents, in-

Figure 1, a side view; and in Fig. 2, a top view.

lThis invention relates to a device for han-ging green tobacco to bedried.

In curinggreen tobacco, several stalks are secured to a short bar, andthis bar then placed upon parallel bars, the ends of the short barsresting upon the saidparallel bars. As these parallel bars are usuallyof considerableheight, thehanging of tobacco is a laborious operation,which, by this invention, is very much reduced; and it consists in adouble hook, of the form hereinafter described, pivoted in the end of astaff rso as to always maintain a vertical posi tion, so that when aperson using the hook drops it to take a -new bar of stalks it will passbelow the bar 5 and as the staf is raised the hook will turn andmaintain its vertical position,`so that the person raising the staff tothe parallel bars may lay the bar of stalks thereon without necessarilybeing in immediate proximityr to the said bars.

A is the sta-if, slotted at the end to receive the arm B of the hook,which is pivoted therein, as at a. From this arm B, to the right andleft, extend other arms, C C, curved forward, each terminating in ahook, D, the weight of the hooks being sufficient to retain them inproper position, as seen in Fig. l, and so that as the staff A israised, as denoted in broken lines, the hooks will retain their samevertical position.

The person hanging the tobacco drops the staff, as seen in Fig. l, toreceive the bar of stalks; then raises it and sets it upon the parallelbars without necessarily being in direct contact with the bars, thestaff being of sufficient length to reach the highest bar.

The arms C C are curved forward in order not to interfere with or strikethe leaves or stalks.

I claim as my inventionrEhe herein-described tobacco-hanger, consistingof the staffA and arm B pivoted thereto, the said arm carrying otherarms C and the hooks D, constructed as herein specified.

ALBAN Gr. FERRISS.

W'itn esses J orrN S. TURRILL, E. A. THAYER.

